Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> No. #index always returns character position; it just so happens that
>> some encodings use bytes for their character position.
> 
> That's just a different way of wording my concern :-P
> You'll still have inconsistencies if you forgot to set the proper 
> encoding for one of your strings. THAT is my (admittedly tiny) concern.

But that would be a bug in your code; if you don't encode a string, you 
can't expect character positions to be meaningful for any encoding other 
than one that just uses byte-sized characters.

- Charlie